Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

It sees the dust particles as invaders and tries to destroy them. Your lung tissue often gets inflamed during this process. As a result, scar tissue may form in your lungs, just as it would after ...

Paraseptal emphysema can cause damage that over time leads to empty spaces in your lung tissue. If they get too big, you may be at risk for a collapsed lung. But that happens rarely. If you still ...

D printed lung tissue used to study effects of toxic vapors - accurately representing the reaction of real lung tissue inside ...

The bleb is dissected, stapled, and the lung tissue is removed from the chest in a specimen bag, allowing more room for the remaining healthy lung to expand. For the first day or so, a chest tube is ...

Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel ...